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Listen carefully, my son, to the master's instructions, and attend to them with the ear of your heart.
This is the advice from a father who loves you; welcome it, and faithfully put it into practice.
The labor of obedience will bring you back to him from whom you had drifted through the sloth of disobedience.Rule of Saint Benedict, Prologue:1-2
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- What is an Oblate?
- How Can I Become an Oblate?
- How Do I Keep in Touch About Oblate Events?
- As Oblate, How Can I Get Involved at Saint Leo Abbey?
- Who Runs the Oblate Program?
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A Benedictine Oblate is a man or woman from any Christian background who makes a promise, not vows like consecrated religious, to a monastery to live a spiritual life patterned after the Rule of Saint Benedict in so far as his or her life permits. The term "oblate" comes from the Latin verb," to offer" and is the proper description as oblates offer themselves and their time as they are "admitted into a spiritual union and affiliation with a Benedictine community of monks or sisters so they may share in the spiritual life, prayers, and good works of the monastic community."
Here at Saint Leo Abbey, our oblates follow the example of the monks and actively seek God through our daily prayer and labor.
- What do Oblates Do at saint leo abbey?
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- Oblate Meetings
- entrance process
- requirements
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- Newsletter
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- Oblate Volunteer jobs
- gift shop
- manual work or services
- reception
- saving grace donations
- study and learn to help with classes
- Assist at mass
- lector, EM, greeter
- Oblate Volunteer jobs
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- Director
- Abbot Isaac
- Coordinators
- Lucius and Kerry
- Teachers
- Abbot Isaac, Lucius, and Apollo
- Director
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People seeking a way to practice a more balanced life of prayer and work may find it in the 1,500-year-old monastic Order of St. Benedict. The spiritual teachings of the earliest Egyptian desert fathers continue to be practiced today through the prayer lives of Benedictine monks, an ancient Catholic order credited with preserving Western civilization during the Dark Ages. Modern Benedictine monks are fulfilling the same role in today’s spiritual dark ages.In Oblate sessions at the abbey, Abbot Isaac teaches how to balance a life of prayer and work. Oblates are encouraged to pray with the monks and learn to incorporate the ancient monastic practices of lectio divina, the divine office, and the Rule of St. Benedict into their everyday lives.
For questions you may have about our oblate program please, send an email to [email protected]
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